ELA+3+Lesson+27

Topic: Make Your Mark- Magnets

Common Core Standards RI3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence and cause/effect. RI3.7 U se information gained from text and graphic features to demonstrate understanding of text (where, when, why and how key events occur)

RI3.8 Describe logical connections between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third).

W3.2 Write to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply factual information about the topic.

W3.5 With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

L3.4.a Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

L3.4.d Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will identify cause/effect relationships in various texts. 2. Students will summarize events in short and long articles. 3. Students will write informative paragraphs about problems electricity has helped to solve. 4. Students will develop, revise and edit their paragraphs.

Suggested Additional Readings: 1. [|cause/effect books] 2. [|Children's story about magnets] 3. //Thomas Edison: A Brilliant Inventor (//TIME for kids biographies) (Editors of TIME for kids with Lisa DeMauro)

Resource Links: 1. [|Magnets video]

Activities: 1. [|Cause/Effect interactive] 2. Students will complete a graphic organizer to assist them in writing about problems and solutions (Projectable 27.9). Students will write complete paragraphs based on the information provided in the graphic organizers. With the help of peers and adults, students will edit and revise their writing.

Assessments: 1. Weekly Test, Lesson 27 2. Problem/Solution Informative Writing, writing rubric TE Unit 5, R.17

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